delta

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Heavy rains in 2025 mean 2026 could be a banner year for wildlife spotting, as water flows out over the delta, reopening waterways to traditional mokoro boat safaris.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Given the nature of delta hedging options, their activity, especially when approaching option expiry, can amplify or exaggerate market moves significantly.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife wrote that it is concerned about weakened protections for winter-run and spring-run chinook salmon, steelhead trout, delta smelt and longfin smelt.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Perseverance was dispatched to the Jezero Crater because it showed qualities that may have meant it was once conducive to life, including signs it was once a delta when Mars could sustain liquid surface water.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Every year the Nile would overflow its banks and flood the delta.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife